If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that covers most languages in the world.

A decades-old computer character standard has been updated with a symbol for bitcoin. The Unicode Consortium unveiled Unicode version 10.0 today, which includes the bitcoin "B" symbol. Overall, the ...

In the first part of this article, I introduced you to Unicode, a grand unification scheme whereby every character in every writing system would be represented by a unique value, up to a potential one ...

Make sure that Unicode normalization is enabled. Open any text editor, e.g. Notepad. Type or insert a combining diacritic, e.g. acute accent (U+0301), then try to read it, e.g. by pressing the Left ...

On the Mac, you can type any character available in there Unicode standard, just by opening up the Emoji & Symbols viewer (Control-Command-Space) and picking the one you want. The selection on iOS is ...

This is a general overview of how text gets transformed from raw bytes to a glyph on the screen. The document is catered towards explaining niche concepts while also providing some pitfalls to avoid.